When Mrs. Lori Rosa attended the SMART Board training given by Todd Rutan at the DCMO BOCES this summer, she was joined by a core group of teachers from Walton Central School who know that up-to-date visual aides make a big difference with students. Mrs. Rosa has been using a ceiling-mounted projector for the past year to bring information to the screen for her classes.
Today, though, she’s the first teacher here at Walton CSD to really get “smart“! Rich Miller and John Jackson mounted the new 77″ diagonal SMART Board this morning. Within a few minutes Mrs. Rosa was using the new interactive whiteboard with her classes. “It’s great!”, she commented as her students stepped up to the board to investigate.
Over the next several weeks Rich and John will be mounting the remaining 9 SMART Boards purchased under our 2007-08 IPA. With this first implementation of the interactive boards, teachers in all three schools will be able to bring a smarter approach to classroom instruction.
April 11, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Hey there! Thanks for the mention in your blog!
I just wanted you to know that I am now a certified master SMARTBoard trainer and would be happy to do some more training for your teachers!
We are also putting together some SMARTBoard training sessions for this summer and some curriculum related SMARTBoard training sessions for the fall! Look for the BOCES Staff Development Catalog which will be distributed before the end of the school year.